The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-07


bottles mineral waters, "a, 400 bottles
spirits, "a, $50 pounds tobacco, CD, $40
cigars, SO, S75 cigarettes. l."
The amount of crockery destroyed in
q voyage is enormous. The average
breakagc is about 900 plates, 2S0 cups,
43S sauccrs. 1,213 tumbles, 200 wine
glasses. p decanters and 63 water bot
ties, When people complain that it
costs great deal of money to cross the
ocean let them study the above statis-
tics in regard to breakage and they will
see that the voyage OF steamer is
costly matter for company. But to
return TO the subject of food consump-
tier. The line spoken of above uses
II tons of mustard, Il tons of pepper.
1910 bottles ct pickles, 5000 tins of
sardines, 80 tons of salt cod and ling,
4,192 four-pound jars of jam. ID tons OF
marmalade Qor the English), p tons
raisins. currants and figs. Is tons split
peas. 10 tons pearl barley, II tons rice,
Oh lOuS Otlluctl, foO touS houi' ~ 'oho
biscuits, 80 tons salt 4S.902 loaves of
bread Is pounds each), 80 tons hams,
20 tons bacon Is tons cheese, $50 tons
potatoes, 24,075 fowls, 1880 ducks.
1900 turkeys, 1900 geese, 1921
tablets Pears's soap. 3,4S4 pounds
Windsor soap, 10 tons yellow soap.
Says the official before quoted:
"As regards the consumption on
board single fleet for one year, we
can almost say that our sheep and oxen
feed on n thousand hills for we con-
sumo no less than 1866 sheep, 1880
lambs and 2,474 oxen-an array of
hocks and herds surprising in extent
the possessions of many pastoral
patriarch of ancient times. This is
equivalent to 2.O91, 754 pounds of meat
or four pounds per minute. We con-
sumo s31, sos eggs or more than Il per
minute; and we drink $1,000 pounds Of
tea in the year, and 7l,77O pounds of
coffee, sweetencd by 296, 100 pounds of
btgtIs
The heaviest item in the lines annua.
expense account is for coal; 356, 764
tons is the yearly requirement. or al
most 1000 tons for every day in the
year. The consumption of engine oil
is 1910 gallons; of burning oils, 49,
020 gallons; of paint oil, 1920 gallons;
of waste, 90 tons; of white lead, 81
tons; of red lead, II tons
The cost of ropes is also large. If
all the rope annually used by this line
were stretched out it would reach from
Glasgow to point forty miles beyond
London.
Then, with respect to the aggregate
employment of labor by this same COM
pauy, it requires 81 captains, LAG offic-
crs, 62S engineers, boiler-makers and
carpenters; 665 seamen, GIG firemen.
900 stewards, 81 stewardesses. AZ
women to keep the upholstery and
linen in order, with LOO of shore
gang, or about $500 people to run the
ships, which traverse yearly distance
equal 10 five times that between the
earth and the moon.
When these figures are compared
with statistics of fifty years ago, the
vast progress in ocean transportation
will be at once apparent The Britain
MIA was built in 1889, aud on her out
ward voyage from Liverpool took 600
tons of coal. burning A tons per day.
Her speed was little over eight knots
per hour. A vessel built in 1885 has
averaged speed of eighteen knots in
nine consecutive voyages between
| Queenstown and New York. Such
speed as this if equal to twenty-one
statute miles per hour, rate of speed
greater than the average of ordinary
train service on any railroad in the
world. The consumption of coal by
the modern steamer is 800 tons per day.
and her engines represent $4,000 horse
power
One of the most interesting features
of ocean travel is the discipline pre-
served by the crew, which eats so much
as we have seen above. At the begin
ming of of a voyage the crew are
obliged to sign articles. and at this
time are examined by the ships sur
geon for olor-blindness. Every Off,
Ger is also examined by an expert for
long and short sightedness. The ut-